Students involved in the iPad project did their first presentation yesterday in class. There was no indication in the presentation how students used the iPad and whether they found it useful.
From my observations in class here are some ways students were using the iPad yesterday while groups were presenting:
- verifying the claims made in the presentations while groups presented
- via Googling the information
- Wikipedia
- Blogsphere
- Back-channeling
- group members discussing via Instant Messaging and occasionally on BUZZ
- One group used the iPad to present additional information while talking about a graph (Map) using the projector
The main focus of this project is to use iPad out in the field to verify data and information collected. This has been problematic so far to implement as the iPad's issued to students are not 3G capable hence we ordered a 3G Vodem which hasn't turned up yet. Also using the iPad version of the calculator - this is again problematic since students had already bought a HP calculator and have been using it for a while - changing to the iPad version of the calculator is taking time.
Hoping to meet the students next week and see if the iPad is helping them in any other way.
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